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Author(s):	Jesse McCarthy

Date:	2024	Format:	rar	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0226832171
Pages:	312	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls the Blue Period.

In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United States was a global onean ideological battle that dominated almost every aspect of the cultural agenda. On the one hand was the Soviet Union, espousing revolutionary communism that promised egalitarianism while being hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand was the United States, a country steeped in racial prejudice and the policies of Jim Crow.

Black writers of this time were equally alienated from the left and the right, Jesse McCarthy argues, and they channeled that alienation into remarkable experiments in literary form. Embracing racial affect and interiority, they forged an aesthetic resistance premised on fierce dissent from both US racial liberalism and Soviet communism. From the end of World War II to the rise of the Black Power movement in the 1960s, authors such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Paule Marshall defined a distinctive moment in American literary culture that McCarthy terms the Blue Period.

In McCarthys hands, this notion of the Blue Period provides a fresh critical framework that challenges long-held disciplinary and archival assumptions. Black writers in the early Cold War went underground, McCarthy argues, not to depoliticize or liberalize their work, but to make it more radicalkeeping alive affective commitments for a future time.
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